Striking Photos Show the Allure of Adventuring After Dark

When the sun sinks below the horizon and vast, starry skies appear, not everyone turns in for the night. For certain adventurers, evening brings a whole new world of opportunity—each one with an epic view of Earth’s atmosphere and what lies beyond it.

Wonders of Iceland
Photograph by Mika-Pekka Markkanen
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Matterhorn star trail
Photograph by Natalia Grebesheva
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Another world – Tongariro National Park
Photograph by Alexander Brown
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Breaking Dawn
Photograph by Vinay Balla
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Northern lights reflections in Tromsø
Photograph by David González
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See thrilling exploits and brilliant starry skies in these National Geographic Your Shot images.
by Lauren O’Brien

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Road Trip

Charting a course from Maine to Alaska for the photo adventure of a lifetime.
Text & Photography by Adam Woodworth

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Road Trip
by Adam Woodworth

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Adrenaline | The Ultimate Sports + Action Photography Contest

Congratulations to the professional and amateur winners of ADRENALINE. Adrenaline celebrates the photographers capturing the intensity and dedication of athletes and adventurers.

Grand Prize | Professional : Fitness
Marcus Eriksson
Vancouver, BC, Canada
An energetic portrait of MMA fighter Dee Obaro.
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Professional : Sports
Hana Asano
Torrance, CA, United States
Former Professionalbasketball player Stef Corgel goes for a finger-roll layup in Los Angeles. This image was shot as part of a personal series titled “Nosebleed Seats.”
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First Place | Professional : Action/Adventure
Andrew Kornylak
Chapel Hill, NC, United States
Climber Jonathan Brandt fully extends looking for the next hold on a cliff at Little River Canyon National Preserve in Alabama.
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First Place | Amateur : Action/Adventure
Aidan Williams
linden, NSW, Australia
A series depicting athletes highlining in daring conditions—an activity where they perform on suspended webbing while wearing a harness and leash.
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Amateur : Fitness
Riley Joslin
West Henrietta, NY, United States
A portrait capturing simplicity in the beauty of the strong female body.
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Grand Prize | Amateur : Sports
Enrique Lopez-Tapia
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Known as Pacu Jawi, this sporting event in South Sumatra, Indonesia, is a traditional celebration where riders hold onto the tails of oxen and try to reach the end of a flooded rice field without falling.
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Professional : Action/Adventure
Darcy Brown
Middlesbrough, Cleveland, United Kingdom
After a storm passed through Hout Bay, South Africa, Brown says that the world’s finest big wave surfers tackled the residual waves, which rose up to 40 feet. “Wonderfully mad, inspiring and adrenaline-fueled action all the way,” she says.
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Adrenaline | The Ultimate Sports + Action Photography Contest
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GoPro – The Complete Guide 2017

Overview: Do you fancy a spot of mountain climbing, surfing or just a stroll on the beach with the dog and want to capture the moment? If that’s the case, then the GoPro range of cameras is just what you need. They were developed to be small, lightweight, robust and able to go anywhere, even underwater. GoPros have been in development since 2002 and have become the popular must have camera for action and adventure. They can shoot stills and video, with the latest versions able to capture glorious 4K video at 60 frames per second as well as 12MP raw files.

Discover more
Follow our essential guides, hints and tips. From unboxing, first time setup and pairing with your phone to learning more about the range and the various accessories available, we cover all angles. Dive in and discover more about how the cameras work, their specifi cations and abilities. Come with us as we explore the GoPro range and delve into what makes it so popular.

Land, sea and sky
You have a GoPro, so now what? We have some great guides and tips for having fun with your camera on land, and water and in the sky too. The potential aff orded you by the GoPro range with all its capabilities and accessories, makes it a truly versatile little action camera. You don’t have to be an extreme mountaineer or dedicated surfer dude; anyone who loves capturing moments of action and fun will love using one too. Our guides are here to show you how.

Make it epic
You’ve got a memory card full of images and video. Now it’s time to get the most out of them. We have some great tips and advice on how to improve your stills photography, video capture and editing.

GoPro – The Complete Guide 2017
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Mirrors. Mountains

Mirrors. Mountains
by Mikolaj Gospodarek, Photographer, Studio Incognito

About Me
My adventure with landscape photography began many years ago during the mountain climbing and hiking in Poland. I decided to show the beauty of the world around me by photographs, which after a few years turned into my profession and way of life. For 8 years I have worked in the St. Paul Edition as a photographer and photo editor. I have had many trips abroad performing materials in a variety of conditions – on the Alpine summits and wild shores of the Mediterranean islands. Each photographic expedition is a wonderful adventure and full of amazing experiences struggle – the struggle for the image of the painting quiet light of the world, which does not really exist, because after a while it is only a memory, but thanks to the subtleties of photos I can share it with audiences around the world.

more at Behance

Global Roaming | Chris McLennan

Chris McLennan is a New Zealand based travel photographer who works for tourism industry clients around the globe. He has photographed in over 50 different countries to date and has received a number of internatonal photography awards. He is an ambassador for camera brand Nikon and computng giant HP. He also holds endorsement relatonships with Lexar, Lowepro and AquaTech.

Actually to call him a travel photographer is something of a misnomer, as Chris works across travel related genres such as lifestyle, adventure, wildlife and natural history with equal aplomb. The fact that all of these necessitate travel – because his clients and shoot locatons are spread all over the globe – is perhaps the strongest link. In this feature, we’ve chosen to focus on his lifestyle and adventure imagery.

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Global Roaming by Chris McLennan
more in f11 Magazine – Issue 66

Cámaras de montaña

Desde hace tres años, se celebra un certamen que premia, a partes iguales, la complicada proeza de escalar altas montañas, así como hacerlo armado no solo de los complementos necesarios y la energía a tope de carga, sino también en compañía de nuestra inseparable cámara de fotos. Y es que en este tipo de imágenes no solo hay que saber plasmar el momento justo –que ya es arduo complicado-, sino también hacerlo en contra de duras inclemencias meteorológicas, difíciles y largas caminatas, y todo tipo de circunstancias que pueden sorprendernos kilómetros arriba. En esta ocasión, han sido 300 los valientes participantes procedentes de 56 países, los que han presentado más 800 imágenes a concurso. Con estas cifras de participación, el concurso organizado por el Club Vasco de Camping Elkartea se consolida como concurso internacional y de calidad, lo que también se justifica por las fantásticas imágenes presentadas.

“The Lighthouse”
Christoph Jorda
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“Steph Daves. The Joker 5.12+”
Krystle Wright
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“Martian Mountains”
José Allende
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“Chilling Out”
Kamil Sustiak
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“Dream Green”
David Wrangborg
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more from the 3rd International Mountain Photo Contest
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